Puerto Rican Beef StewSancocho

Serves 6

It is said of a person who has been under the sweltering sun
that he is sancocho—blistering hot or "stewing." This Puerto
Rican stew best illustrates the one-step cooking method, a typical
food preparation that has prevailed for five hundred years in
Puerto Rican homes, primarily because it allows the latitude for
batch cooking a nutritious meal in a single pot.

The barbacoa technique employed by the Tainos has evolved more
sophisticated and complex cooking technology, but the spirit and
the legacy of the barbacoa are constant as we struggle against the
drudgery of the modern work day and subsequent meal preparation.
When you come home, why not spend 15 minutes of preparation and 45
minutes of "R and R?" The pot over the heat does the cooking you
end up with a delicious beefy stew.